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lead, wondering the while how she managed to keep 

 it. Mr. Brunskill's son and daughter have inherited 

 their parents' love of the chase and receive every 

 encouragement in its indulgence. 



In the year 1910, owing to increasing business 

 demands on the time of the honorary secretary, Mr. 

 L. G. Vicary, who had done excellent service since his 

 appointment to the post, Mrs. Brunskill was ap- 

 pointed to act as his assistant. Two years later this 

 arrangement was superseded, on the retirement of 

 Mr. L. G. Vicary, by the appointment of Major H. W. 

 Cobham to the office. Major Cobham had only been 

 a comparatively short time in the country and had 

 settled at Ashburton. He hunted regularly himself 

 and soon got into touch with all classes in the hunt. 

 There is generally a difficulty in getting a man of 

 leisure to find time for anything, but the new 

 honorary secretary was an exception. Besides being 

 businesslike, he was thorough and tactful and made 

 an admirable secretary. 



One of the familiars of the hunt for many years was 

 old Roger Hannaford, a labourer on the Buckland 

 Estate, who looked after the earthstopping on that 

 side of the moor. He wore an old pink coat and a 

 velvet hunting-cap, and when long past seventy years 

 of age would walk many miles to meet hounds, and 

 many more in charge of the terriers during the day, 

 returning home on foot after the sport was over. It 

 was wonderful how he would turn up when the 

 terriers were wanted and when one thought he had 

 been left miles away. He always attended the 

 keeper's dinner, and ate everything with his knife, 

 which he handled with the dexterity of a juggler. 

 There was an awful fascination in watching the 

 performance. Once I thought he was stumped when 



